I can’t say anything about the rest of the episode because colbertnation.com appears to be reeeeeallllly busy right now. I’ll have to catch the rest of the show later. Meanwhile, tell me what I missed in the comments below!

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Soo glad that they are posting the full 16 minutes on the interwebs. Love the energy between Stephen and Austan. Austan lists improv as one of his interests and the way he “Yes, and”-ed the “five words or less” challenge shows he leans in to play the game and still communicated really valuable information on point … so great, just so great!

I was floored that in pt. 3 of the extended interview, Goolsbee wouldn’t knockdown “Stephen’s” contention that the government never created a single job. WTF!? What’s the point of a Democratic party if their president’s chief economics adviser can bring himself to say that!
I prefered the Tip o hat/ Wag of the finger segment. Loved seeing Sweetness again! It’s been way to long! And Stephen and Sweetness on the kiss cam? Awesome!
Bubp. Bubp? Bubp?! Don’t you think his lack of vowels would cause him to urinate in the family circle?

I totally agree with you- I was waiting for Goolsbee to redirect and mention job creation. Perhaps he was attempting to think a step ahead in order to keep up with Stephen and it fell to the wayside. I mean, he acknowledged he may be put off his game from the moment Stephen sat down and asked, “You know what I’m gonna do?” Goolsbee muttered, “Oh, no…”

Totally agree. Not able to say that the government has created ONE job? EVER? What about cops, firefighters, and teachers? The military, which is run by the government? Spies? All the auxiliary personnel who keep things running? The IRS?

And what about the New Deal, when loads of jobs were government created, from building bridges to putting on plays?

It’s said he wouldn’t commit to that. I suspect Stephen was a little surprised, too.

Ok so this is totally fangirly of me, but I really enjoyed the closing segment where Stephen was *almost* completely out of character, just talking to the audience with that huge smile on his face the whole time.

You took the words right out of my mouth. That was actually the best part of the show for me. To see him completely drop character for the sign-off was SO rare, it was adorable to see him like that.

When I saw the “For the full interview, go to colbertnation.com” graphic pop up during the Austan Goolsbee interview, I cheered! I’ve been wanting to see an extrended TCR interview for so long, and now I finally can. I haven’t had time to watch the full interview yet unfortunately, but I will definitely watch it soon.

I know, so adorable. He said as many “ums” as I think I did in an interview Monday afternoon! It actually made me feel better about the interview because if Stephen can use it to collect his thoughts then I probably didn’t sound that bad! :)

I’m glad he may be starting to go the way of Jon with longer online interviews. Jon is doing it about one a week or more now, and I’d like to see Stephen continue his interviews as well. He’s always given us extra with the musical numbers.